Celebrity Real Estate: Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs, Leona Helmsley

Published: Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014 4:14 p.m. CDT

By zillow.com

By Laura Vecsey

Unfreezing Their Assets, Diggs & Menzel Selling in L.A.With their impending divorce after 10 years of marriage, Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel are looking to unload their 5,000-square-foot Studio City home, listing the 3121 Oakdell Ln property for $2.995 million. The former couple bought the sleek, traditional 6-bedroom, 5-bathroom in 2010 for $2.09 million.

Menzel has had a huge year thanks to the movie “Frozen.” She voiced Elsa in animated film, and its signature song, “Let It Go,” was nominated for an Oscar.

Diggs is a stage, movie and TV actor best known for his roles in films such as “Rent” and “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” and the TV series “Private Practice.” He and Menzel met while filming “Rent” in the 1990s.

Leona Helmsley Estate Back on the MarketAfter a very “taxing” history, the Greenwich, CT summer home where hotelier Leona Helmsley died in 2007 is back on the market. The new list price from the owners who bought the Helmsley estate: $65 million.

It is a house with a story – a juicy tabloid kind of story.

The completely-renovated mansion was at the center of the tax evasion scheme that landed Helmsley in jail in the 1990s, leading Helmsley to be infamously dubbed the “Queen of Mean” and quoted as saying that “only the little people pay taxes.”

The 17,493-square-foot brick estate sits on 40 acres on Round Road, one of the most famous parts of Greenwich. Among the luxuries they added to the home: a marble dance floor above the swimming pool, a $45,000 silver clock and $500,000 worth of jade art objects, according to The New York Times.

Helmsley’s estate was originally listed for $123 million, but several price cuts led to its eventual sale to the current owners, for $35 million. The 1918 estate was soon re-listed at $42.9 million, and taken off the market for the massive remodel.